Kali Holloway

Kali Holloway is the director of the Make It Right Project, a new national campaign to take down Confederate monuments and tell the truth about history. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Time, AlterNet, Truthdig, The Huffington Post, The National Memo, Jezebel, Raw Story, and numerous other outlets.

Transgender RightsToday 5:00 am

Black Trans Lives Must Be Front and Center

Racist policing is particularly devastating for Black trans and gender-nonconforming people.

Kali Holloway
Racism and DiscriminationJune 12, 2020

The Violence Didn’t Start With the Protests

Violence has been a constant throughout American history and is woven through countless American systems today.

Kali Holloway
Criminal JusticeMay 15, 2020

Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Understood White Freedom Perfectly

They saw themselves as entitled to police the movements, motivations, and ultimately, the right to exist of a black stranger.

Kali Holloway
InequalityApril 3, 2020

The Coronavirus Reveals That the Stars Are Not Like Us

If there was ever a fourth wall dividing celebrities and the rest of us on social media, the quarantine has broken it.

Kali Holloway
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HistoryMarch 23, 2020

Since Emancipation, the United States Has Refused to Make Reparations for Slavery

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.

Kali Holloway
Racism and DiscriminationMarch 25, 2019

‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History

These monuments—nearly all of them still standing—prop up the fantasy that slaves were happy, loyal, and devoted to those who enslaved them.

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Kali Holloway

Transgender RightsToday 5:00 am

Racist policing is particularly devastating for Black trans and gender-nonconforming people.

Racism and DiscriminationJune 12, 2020

Violence has been a constant throughout American history and is woven through countless American systems today.

Criminal JusticeMay 15, 2020

They saw themselves as entitled to police the movements, motivations, and ultimately, the right to exist of a black stranger.

InequalityApril 3, 2020

If there was ever a fourth wall dividing celebrities and the rest of us on social media, the quarantine has broken it.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

HistoryMarch 23, 2020

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.

Racism and DiscriminationMarch 25, 2019

These monuments—nearly all of them still standing—prop up the fantasy that slaves were happy, loyal, and devoted to those who enslaved them.